tef on Nostr: if you tell a programmer "we store the code in the repo as a directory of patches, ...

if you tell a programmer "we store the code in the repo as a directory of patches, raw,so if you want to know what the code is now, read the patch files one by one" they'd look at you weirdly

but for some reason this also how all database schemas are stored, and if you suggest "what if we had one file with the latest code" they think you're insane for suggesting it

even before you get to the "migrations get run basically once in their lifetime" bit